Honestly, I think this video deliberately wasn't trying to delve too heavily into either. It's trying to keep a human aspect on a technological trend. If anything, I got from this video is that you don't have to be super-familiar or super-qualified to become successful at this emerging technological trend in agriculture. A young woman, with an initial bit of skepticism, but support of her loved ones, was able to enter and succeed in this field. Then, the story tells how we're going to need alternative solutions for humanity's literally growing problem of an increased population. Finally, the video ends with Katie reaffirming that she thinks human minds will always have a component that machines lack, so there's always going to be some need for us, in this advent of newer technological fields. I took this video as a way to get people interested in asking questions about vertical farming, and generating a personal interest in such trends in technology, rather than trying to answer questions about vertical farming. Because the latter would probably feel colder, on its own. Especially in an era today where people are increasingly more concerned about humans jobs being reduced by technological alternatives. If you're going to share the idea, you have to break the ice a bit. I think this was just an icebreaker.
I'm an automation specialist for an oil company- This is the future in so many industries, my family & I also consume a Whole Food Plant Based Diet- This type of industry can help eliminate the inefficiencies of farming and get much needed tech jobs nearer large population centers where the produce can go straight to market! I Love it!!
Then stop being pretentious and go find a video specifically on vertical farming. This video was just an ice-breaker, showing some human aspect behind the emerging technological field.
her life yes replaced by AI and automation soon like everybody's job in the future don't worry about knowing about anything about this kitty kat you will be well fed and taken care of by your superiors its our destined fate - relax !
the ideological mission of showing a successful woman and dehumanized production (not only cost, labours usually hold different beliefs from liberal journalists and bosses, so not touching "the outdated different" itself is inviting for them) prioritize transmitting knowledge and business analysis as cost advantage, energy consumption. Let electricity replace all solar energy, can't believe it's economic and environmentally attractive.
simply speaking, even the reporter knows this is not an attractive biz mode, and she is no way a professional either, so depicting another pioneering woman to spoil specific readers is very all she can do
more look around, soilless products are incompetent in cost or quality but still hold a small fraction of high-end organic market very much due to marketing only. China (particularly certain rich provinces with blind worship in new concepts from the west) had made a great scale of failed attempts earlier between 2016-18 and soilless farming has been outdated even in this "rich fools" market.
There are so many pluses and minuses to vertical farming. On the one hand, it is super efficient. Most farms use 80-90% less water than traditional farms, no pesticides, no (or very little) fertalizer, typically a solar roof will power all the lights of a building. But mostly, there is a promise of little to no long-haul shipping or long-term storage. You can just build a vertical farm in every city, and grow crops year-round to have always fresh local food! It is a great leap forward for any plants that are lettuce sized or smaller. The down side however is the price. When you have companies full of enviornmental PhDs and programmers, as well as expensive up-front costs for all of the lighting and automation equipment, the break-even point for these kinds of small veggies is pretty much never. Put one of these in every city, control them with a centralized system, and fill them with cheap labor and less automation and you will have yourself a profitable company that can pump out food for the masses. But that still does not solve the food problem. most people don't buy a lot off small crops. For this to really take off, it needs to be able to take over staple crops like corn, wheat, and rice, and do it cheap. And it seems that they haven't quite cracked that nut yet... but I bet they are getting close! Once they can do that, the world changes overnight. But in the US, corn is hard as it is so large. I wonder if we will simply continue using fields for corn, of if we would shift our staples to more rice based products.
I'm so glad that everything finally came together for Katie. Let's revisit this in a year, and see if Katie's still there. Check back in 10 and see if the "farm" is still there....
It's quite impressive what kaitie is doing at bowery farm,she's been setting up a role model for people looking forward to get involved in new technological fields.
I would like to see a cost breakdown of field farming vs. vertical farming from seed to consumer. I understand that the appeal of the vertical farm is the lack of pesticides, the taste, the freshness. It still would be interesting to see a cost comparison.
There a very similar operation called little leaf farms. I've visited and talked with them. They make 60-67% gp per case. These guys might be a little lower but I'd imagine no lower than 40% gp.
Nah, the appeal is that you can have agriculture at all, indoors, or underground. Because in 400 - 500 years, there won't BE any above-ground outdoor agriculture. This is the unavoidable furture now.
I like the fact that they've highlighted her life...jobs of the future will affect every aspect of our lives. It only makes sense to see how a human is adapting to the new jobs.
This can be set up underground, can work at night, can be used in space and on other planets. Automated, no pests, minimal water usage, no fertilizer wasted, no waste spilling into local areas. Only downsides are initial costs and running electricity costs, but both can be improved upon as solar batteries get cheaper and tech set-up becomes mass produced.
I had this idea in 1999; I’m so happy to see this actually being created!!!! I talked about it all the time hoping that the right people would be able to make it happen!!!!! Great JOB my fellow humans!!!!!
Maybe it was about a songwriter working at a farm... that wrote the song " Maggie's Farm"? (Due to copywrite issues, he changed her name to Katie) Hopefully I didn't further confuse the issue . (wink Yathin Surya, and grats, Jean Roch for the quaint rare quality of WISDOM you possess, plus of course Bob Dylan for coming together here in these final years of pre-posthumanity.)
Ms.Katie, you're admired by many Americans and many individuals worldwide, you bring prosperity as well as types of work where there is infinite joy for agriculture and preservation of farming methods and production that is certain and not for losses, inventories that are always realized, GDP that is continuous and grows original that gives employment and businesses to have suppliers that supplies food at their respective shelters, micro house, respective tables of different size. It is thankful always to have many individuals such as you, a fighter, and a woman. Marriages that are honourable in all righteousness be it left and right. Certainty is always evident in the business, continue to live and Impart the same light that ye possess.
great story if it would have been called "Katie's love her work day at her Orwellian vertical factory farm"... So go google vertical farms or Bowery Farming want real info on this subject...
Jesus Christ, if you were expecting detailed information on vertical farming, then you shouldn't have clicked on a title that can be read as "this farmer grows kale". Implying that the center of the story is the farmer, not the Bowery Farming. Follow you own goddamn advice, lady.
I think the video promotes the field and degree in agriculture more so for people who want that. For colleges, degrees, and farmers there was a large demand for people who wanted to learn and research in that area. The degree picked up a great deal and large amounts of people wanted to go into a field that they thought would be in demand in the future. The problem with that way of thinking is that you can't predict how well your field of study will be in the near future. The farmers and companies were more educated and learned how to produce better crops from the university studies and the people that went into that degree. Once they had that information and used their research as standard practice, the need for these people with degrees became less desirable and so you had a large number of people with a degree that was oversaturated and hardly any need for them. I think the video shows more ways the degrees in agriculture will be available because of changing practices in agriculture or the way technology is forcing change on those farmers that wouldn't change. I hope that helps in why I think they chose to look at employee number nine.
This is an example of an industry that hones, shapens the abilities of individuals, it teaches craft of life, discipline, growth, and being preserved of the things that preserves life,from the source making it continuous and flourishing. Employees are healthier and full of being productive in so many ways. It calls for mastery of culture, who knows, it could be you. Human skills cannot be compared to a mecha. Man was given dominion to rule the world and manage its resources. "Planted by the waters by the word'. As bearers of living waters that flows.
It's exciting to see this technology coming to fruition and real businesses starting up. Nice to see the opportunities this technology is bringing for people like Katie too. "Farm Operator", that's a subtly space-age job title if you ask me.
ive been doing this hobo style for 15 years now. with the advent of legal weed, the industr has boomed like crazy and become so cheap to do on a small scale at home. very rewarding.
When the science is not interesting or financially sustainable, you try to fluff up the business with personal stories. That is how tech startups work these days.
I mean I get your point the idea that this cant be profitable in future is false, this very well might be the key to human adaption to climate change and maintaining the food supply.
Well this can obviously be made a lot more simpler and cheaper by removing a lot of unwanted stuff. And over the years, tech will become better and it might be profitable in the future
My school took us to a vertical farm few years ago in London in the East end, a building in the middle of a business area. It was so fascinating and what was most interesting to me, was the fish farming. They used the fish excrement as nutrients for the fruits and veg. [Edit] it's is sad that patenting laws prevent this from being everywhere for all of humanity to benefit from it. The fact that information is a commodity and those who pay for it can exclusively access it, is specially the heartbreaking part of our profit driven world.
It is because of patenting that it exists. You think you'd spend half your life researching sth to make zero profit and get it china copied? The most innovative and modern countries are countries with a strong patent system.
It doesn't go into the specific details about this farming, but from the looks of it. It appears to be aquaponics which there's criticism about supplying nutrients through a tube. Also there's the matter of using plastics which rubs into the water and goes into the plant. However if build correctly with a full ecosystem using quality fishes and so on can be beneficial on a mass scale for the population. I also believe that this type of thinking will result in more community farming which will encourage people to be more invested in building farming lands for the community.
A part of the problem of feeding the entire world is not the amount, but the distribution of what we eat. If it rots while in distribution, it's gonna take a lot more food to feed one person, I'll tell you that. In that way, plastic wrapping is environmentally friendly.
I understand the people wanting to know more about the vertical farm and less about Katie. But honestly, I think is also very interesting somebody can go to college, pay an enormous amount of money for education. Graduate, and have a really hard time looking for a job in their field. So they have to settle for a job where a computer is your boss. Basically you do what the computer tells you because the computer no only knows better, it has experience it already learned due to artificial intelligence. This is the future to most of our descendants. You do not have to like it or dislike it, it does not matter, it is happening. I for one welcome our computer overlords.
whenever there's a video of modern "vertical farming" that's going to "change the world" it's always kale and salad. Why don't you grow real vegetables like potatoes, carrots, onion, garlic...
Right!! The truth is, it's just not profitable right now. I was just chatting with my friend who builds these things and he was saying how growing something like cucumbers requires too much light energy for the photosynthesis to create glucose in the fruits/veggies that only leafy greens make sense to grow. This is disappointing if this is supposed to be the future of food, we need to keep improving the science and technology behind this. I wrote my Master's thesis on Vertical Farming, and it has a long way to go before we are seeing more than leafy greens and herbs coming our way.
Fertile soil is the most important factor in organic growing because of all its known and yet to be discovered benefits on the nutritional quality of crops. Hydroponic growing removes the crucial soil factor and replaces it with soluble nutrient solutions that can in no way duplicate the complex benefits of soil
So these are the pros and cons of in door farming at least in my opinion: Pros: nutrition flow can be highly regulated, Water is not lost but instead can be recycled Cons: High energy consumption Ergo: the costs can only hardly being minimized. But still I see great chances of the implications in deserts, where water and nutrients are scarce and energy is cheap
No, we don't, the natural crops still have more amount of nutrients in a wider range of types, which is much healthier for humans and animals. Also, in this artificial way, natural distribution and mixture of genes among different types of a single species, is disturbed as there is no sexual reproduction of the crops, thus at a later time, these crops will lose the ability to survive in different climates and conditions. So, this method is scientifically unethical and not worthful. Rather try to find a way to grow more crops by discovering natural insecticide, fertilizers and better genetically modified species which die less and give more seeds/ food.
Aasif Haque that’s stupid especially since this is a huge way towards space farming. Also, since when do you need sexual activity to create a diverse plant. We are long past the Stone Age seeming times where you crossed a yellow pea with another yellow by hand. Bio engineering my friend. Also this saves space. You don’t have to deal with pesticides or parasites. This is a huge success. Fuck the old-age farming style.
i know what every vegans nightmare is :D Harvard's (decade-long) study on Plant intelligence and their conscious family oriented behavior. you are just to big, and impatient to notice they live and breath just like humans. :D happy reading! i'll order you a steak, and wait by the bar.
Honestly it's any person's dream who can't afford imported vegetables or can't grow them / source them locally. If you look to places in northern Canada or even norther Europe you can't grow vegetables because if the climate, and importing things like salads or even fruit is mind bogglingly expensive. Vertical farming is a way to grow food when it's pitch black outside (24 hours of darkness is a thing the more northern you go) and -35 degrees and there's 10 foot of snow and the boats, trucks or planes cant deliver food. Most of these operations run on extremely effecient LEDs and pumps making them not just affordable to run, but affordable to the end customer. Also, the vertical aspect means that it takes up less space (which is why you can have a farm in the middle of New York City etc) and be cheaper for people looking to start a vertical farming buisness.
im a fan of vertical farming myself, yet, Nebraska has a 90-year-old farmer who is killing it with greenhouses using thermo-heating. this previous thought, that we can't grow food anywhere on the planet, is dissipating fast. This gentleman has a yield of over 8x the normal conventional farming operation, using 1/8th of the land. all year round, and runs on solar power. the best part of it is, that he is buying up all the land, no longer rich in nutrients because we have stolen it all from the soil (farming incorrectly). not to mention his 100% organic method. it's a huge simple solution to add. his only issue is two pests, and they are removed by an organic oil mixture. its quite impressive, i must say! yet, something tells me that our ancestors who used to do something similar to this were also reaping harvests off of these ancient methods, revised. they used to have a hole mounded with veggie's etc, and an opening to the sun on a 66 degree angle, (i think) depending on your location from the equator.
@@blue_cameron so do insects. Far more insects eat plants than humans. That's why they communicate with the enemy of the attacker v.i.a pheromones. They share soil only with relatives. You see plants are conscious beings. But reality is harsh to some by showing, "life needs life, to live"..nL how far does your love for life go? To starvation? Or are some to small to care about? Plant life matters hehe
Vertical farms like Bowery will, besides the food problem, solve the issue of space that growing crops in regular fields takes and, even further, the amount of water they waste in the tradicional methods, since the water in cities does not cost the same as water in (and for) rural productive properties. Beyond that, there's the logistic problem, because rural areas frequently are far from urban centers. With vertical farms, every single neighbourhood could have it's own farm for it's people, who can go there by walking and buy their vegetables. We could also talk about the development of local economy and reduce of traffic (of stress, pollution and waste of time, by consequence), but that's another toppic for another discussion.
I loved it, I'm impressed this is in Jersey, and also it's a neat reporting, by not only presenting the technology but also the social impact it gives to its comunity. Awesome!
For every job created by technology, 100 are lost. I am not against technology, I am against this idea that every human must work all day, every day, as if tech hasn't replaced the need for manual labor.
A 2020 report found that nearly 690 million people-or 8.9 percent of the global population-are hungry, up by nearly 60 million in five years. The food security challenge will only become more difficult, as the world will need to produce about 70 percent more food by 2050 to feed an estimated 9 billion people. 3:33 The challenge is intensified by agriculture’s extreme vulnerability to climate change. The problem also works in reverse. Agriculture is a major part of the climate problem. [World Bank]
This video takes on an important aspect. To get the produce to be cheap, they need less farmers. This means: 1) They might not have profits or very little. 2) They’re burning cash, literally. 3) Once the singularity happens if there’s very little people working who’s going to buy the produce?
I imagine one of the biggest advantages to this farming technology is that due to being a completely controlled environment, they can use much less pesticide and not have to worry about pest control as much.
I would love to ask Katie how she feels about this morally. After all, the entire genome of the Amazon rainforest could quite easily be permanently stored in a hard drive !
I love this business and would love to run a farm like this but I really don't see this technology creating more jobs then traditional farming and as a matter of fact it will destroy far more then it creates.
Hopefully, these factories can lower the price of food and allow people to spend more on other industries which create more jobs there.. But it would cause a lot of chaos while traditional farmers have to find new jobs/education and whole communities built around agriculture have to adjust.
What is the mechanism by which a farm like this would destroy jobs? Are you thinking that the production will so much more efficient that there will be less need for workers compared to the amount of harvested vegetables. If so, it would likely only drive prices down, promote the development of more tiered farms and lead the economy to adapt to changing agricultural-sector conditions. Agricultural innovations have always led to a decrease in the number of required jobs to produce crops, but this has never proved detrimental to changing economies. In the mid-1800s, around 50% of americans were employed in agriculture. Today only around 2% are directly employed in agriculture yet the percentage of income that goes into buying food for the average american has decreased steadily since the post-antebellum era, and has only recently begun to flatten out.
How many rural farmers are there in the world?. Not just North America but worldwide? How many of them can buy or rent warehouse space and afford to build the infrastructure in it? Not to mention these farms produce somewhere in the neighborhood of 10x the yield of traditional farming with 1/10th the risk. It will be impossible to compete for 90% of the worlds farmers.
@@stevepatterson1124 My professor always said. When you build technology you must think about social impacts to farmers. I'm from Agricultural University in Indonesia. And here we still depend on traditional agriculture. And yes. This kind of farming method will kill many farmers here. It'll starve more than it'll feed.
Video is about an employee, in a series about jobs. Comments are 90% people talking about the industry, not the job. If you want more information about vertical farming, those videos are out there. This video is a video about employees in a vertical farm.
Interesting video. I like her backstory. I think the reason people complain in comments are they do not like to get reminded of their own self-doubts. I like to be reminded, and see it was not only me. Also let me get reminded that most young people today are just like that. I was the same. Took me many years to find my self and my spot in the world. Because parenting and the system failed.
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"The software tells her what to do." So basically she's playing real life Farmville. Neat.
More like real life stardew valley! :D
Sims?
Hypo_Tech Haha, was about to say just that :'D !
Except she's getting paid for it, not the opposite.
software told all the illegals aliens what to do at my last job. they still fucked it all up.
Employee of the month:
*Laptop*
Lmao
Who owns this company? A program AI?
Those softwares are seriously powerful these days.
Smartphone...
You forgot, "Again" ... "Laptop Again". :D
Is this about vertical farming or Katie's life ???
luis fuentes her cat and her husband are an important part of vertical farming
Yo morons, the title says *farmer* not _farming..._ who taught you to read ? Betsy DeVos ?
whats with the anger cat lover
I'm surprised we didn't see the cat in the credits. That cat was probably the most important part of the whole video.
Honestly, I think this video deliberately wasn't trying to delve too heavily into either. It's trying to keep a human aspect on a technological trend.
If anything, I got from this video is that you don't have to be super-familiar or super-qualified to become successful at this emerging technological trend in agriculture.
A young woman, with an initial bit of skepticism, but support of her loved ones, was able to enter and succeed in this field. Then, the story tells how we're going to need alternative solutions for humanity's literally growing problem of an increased population.
Finally, the video ends with Katie reaffirming that she thinks human minds will always have a component that machines lack, so there's always going to be some need for us, in this advent of newer technological fields.
I took this video as a way to get people interested in asking questions about vertical farming, and generating a personal interest in such trends in technology, rather than trying to answer questions about vertical farming.
Because the latter would probably feel colder, on its own. Especially in an era today where people are increasingly more concerned about humans jobs being reduced by technological alternatives.
If you're going to share the idea, you have to break the ice a bit. I think this was just an icebreaker.
I'm an automation specialist for an oil company- This is the future in so many industries, my family & I also consume a Whole Food Plant Based Diet- This type of industry can help eliminate the inefficiencies of farming and get much needed tech jobs nearer large population centers where the produce can go straight to market!
I Love it!!
I want to know about the farming not her life !!
then maybe read the title of the video
What part of "farmer" don't you understand ?
Then stop being pretentious and go find a video specifically on vertical farming.
This video was just an ice-breaker, showing some human aspect behind the emerging technological field.
indeed
her life yes replaced by AI and automation soon like everybody's job in the future don't worry about knowing about anything about this kitty kat you will be well fed and taken care of by your superiors its our destined fate - relax !
Too much backstory not enough sci-fi farm
Read the title
the ideological mission of showing a successful woman and dehumanized production (not only cost, labours usually hold different beliefs from liberal journalists and bosses, so not touching "the outdated different" itself is inviting for them) prioritize transmitting knowledge and business analysis as cost advantage, energy consumption. Let electricity replace all solar energy, can't believe it's economic and environmentally attractive.
''Plant factories versus greenhouses: Comparison of resource use efficiency'' this uni research tells the feasibility of sci-fi farm.
simply speaking, even the reporter knows this is not an attractive biz mode, and she is no way a professional either, so depicting another pioneering woman to spoil specific readers is very all she can do
more look around, soilless products are incompetent in cost or quality but still hold a small fraction of high-end organic market very much due to marketing only. China (particularly certain rich provinces with blind worship in new concepts from the west) had made a great scale of failed attempts earlier between 2016-18 and soilless farming has been outdated even in this "rich fools" market.
Spare a thought for the software programmers
nah .. leave them in their VR ..
Press f to pay respect
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those nerds? what do they do?
Katie deserves it all. Doesn't she? [grabs popcorn awaiting Marxists]
There are so many pluses and minuses to vertical farming.
On the one hand, it is super efficient. Most farms use 80-90% less water than traditional farms, no pesticides, no (or very little) fertalizer, typically a solar roof will power all the lights of a building. But mostly, there is a promise of little to no long-haul shipping or long-term storage. You can just build a vertical farm in every city, and grow crops year-round to have always fresh local food! It is a great leap forward for any plants that are lettuce sized or smaller.
The down side however is the price. When you have companies full of enviornmental PhDs and programmers, as well as expensive up-front costs for all of the lighting and automation equipment, the break-even point for these kinds of small veggies is pretty much never. Put one of these in every city, control them with a centralized system, and fill them with cheap labor and less automation and you will have yourself a profitable company that can pump out food for the masses.
But that still does not solve the food problem. most people don't buy a lot off small crops. For this to really take off, it needs to be able to take over staple crops like corn, wheat, and rice, and do it cheap. And it seems that they haven't quite cracked that nut yet... but I bet they are getting close! Once they can do that, the world changes overnight. But in the US, corn is hard as it is so large. I wonder if we will simply continue using fields for corn, of if we would shift our staples to more rice based products.
To have farms like this pulls a burden on earth to plant everything on the ground.
This is so informative that I want to start my own Katie now...
😂😂😂
LOL
YES
Yeah wtf
Yet another illiterate dumbass who can't read a video's title but still thinks he's smart...
I'm so glad that everything finally came together for Katie.
Let's revisit this in a year, and see if Katie's still there. Check back in 10 and see if the "farm" is still there....
It's been 3 years, did you?
So how are they doing financially and what is the cost to the consumer?
It's pretty much the same price as the other salads that are grown in real fields.
YOU WISH ! ! !
Vertical farms are not yet profitable , just like netflix or tesla. It will be some day @!!!
$20 for kale
Exactly when they do strawberrys which are seasonal and people actually want it will make money but for now it is dumb
It is not dumb. Just because it came first doesn't mean it's dumb.
Gosh tell me more about the tech, not about someone's self doubts.
"The High-Tech Vertical Farmer"
It's quite impressive what kaitie is doing at bowery farm,she's been setting up a role model for people looking forward to get involved in new technological fields.
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I would like to see a cost breakdown of field farming vs. vertical farming from seed to consumer. I understand that the appeal of the vertical farm is the lack of pesticides, the taste, the freshness. It still would be interesting to see a cost comparison.
Julia Set I second that request
I third that request
There a very similar operation called little leaf farms. I've visited and talked with them. They make 60-67% gp per case. These guys might be a little lower but I'd imagine no lower than 40% gp.
Nah, the appeal is that you can have agriculture at all, indoors, or underground. Because in 400 - 500 years, there won't BE any above-ground outdoor agriculture. This is the unavoidable furture now.
That is the real question....
I like the fact that they've highlighted her life...jobs of the future will affect every aspect of our lives. It only makes sense to see how a human is adapting to the new jobs.
Wow I never knew so much about Katie! Cause I really wanted to...
Snarky is a lil biatch
"The High-Tech Vertical Farmer"
This can be set up underground, can work at night, can be used in space and on other planets. Automated, no pests, minimal water usage, no fertilizer wasted, no waste spilling into local areas. Only downsides are initial costs and running electricity costs, but both can be improved upon as solar batteries get cheaper and tech set-up becomes mass produced.
@R J Very interesting views, sadly 2 dimensional
@J R id hate to be you
WHAT other planets? WHERE? YOU GOT SOME HIDING IN YOUR BACK POCKET WE CAN USE??
I hope it's not used for illegal purposes, why does it have to be underground? What are you planning to grow under there?
I had this idea in 1999; I’m so happy to see this actually being created!!!! I talked about it all the time hoping that the right people would be able to make it happen!!!!! Great JOB my fellow humans!!!!!
Why the sob story about her life?? I'm here to see if this vertical farming is actually a viable option.
"The High-Tech Vertical Farmer"
This is in my opinion the most advanced technology platform in the horticulture industry, well done to the founders
Was the documentary about the farming or Katie I got confused 🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, I can see that you are. Here's a hint : the title says *farmer.* No need to thank me.
@@TheNefastor thanks for your wisdom 🤣🤣
@@yathinsurya4270 you're welcome.
Maybe it was about a songwriter working at a farm... that wrote the song " Maggie's Farm"? (Due to copywrite issues, he changed her name to Katie) Hopefully I didn't further confuse the issue . (wink Yathin Surya, and grats, Jean Roch for the quaint rare quality of WISDOM you possess, plus of course Bob Dylan for coming together here in these final years of pre-posthumanity.)
Geezus, what's up with all the dumb asses who are unable to read a single line title...
Ms.Katie, you're admired by many Americans and many individuals worldwide, you bring prosperity as well as types of work where there is infinite joy for agriculture and preservation of farming methods and production that is certain and not for losses, inventories that are always realized, GDP that is continuous and grows original that gives employment and businesses to have suppliers that supplies food at their respective shelters, micro house, respective tables of different size. It is thankful always to have many individuals such as you, a fighter, and a woman. Marriages that are honourable in all righteousness be it left and right. Certainty is always evident in the business, continue to live and Impart the same light that ye possess.
great story if it would have been called "Katie's love her work day at her Orwellian vertical factory farm"... So go google vertical farms or Bowery Farming want real info on this subject...
Jesus Christ, if you were expecting detailed information on vertical farming, then you shouldn't have clicked on a title that can be read as "this farmer grows kale". Implying that the center of the story is the farmer, not the Bowery Farming. Follow you own goddamn advice, lady.
Go look at what they're doing in the Netherlands, and then come back and criticize this operation. Clearly the investors see something you don't
Professional Gardener are not dirty anymore..
It never has been.
Katie didn't start Bowery she's employee #9. So tell me why it's more about her than the company and tech. used? Useless video.
The company probably didnt want to give out too much infomation so they focused quite a bit on katie to try full the video
pretty face factor played a key role in bringing you here as well, admit it.
I think the video promotes the field and degree in agriculture more so for people who want that. For colleges, degrees, and farmers there was a large demand for people who wanted to learn and research in that area. The degree picked up a great deal and large amounts of people wanted to go into a field that they thought would be in demand in the future. The problem with that way of thinking is that you can't predict how well your field of study will be in the near future. The farmers and companies were more educated and learned how to produce better crops from the university studies and the people that went into that degree. Once they had that information and used their research as standard practice, the need for these people with degrees became less desirable and so you had a large number of people with a degree that was oversaturated and hardly any need for them. I think the video shows more ways the degrees in agriculture will be available because of changing practices in agriculture or the way technology is forcing change on those farmers that wouldn't change. I hope that helps in why I think they chose to look at employee number nine.
guberization Finally someone who gets it.
the segment is called "Next Jobs", so it's about the jobs
This is an example of an industry that hones, shapens the abilities of individuals, it teaches craft of life, discipline, growth, and being preserved of the things that preserves life,from the source making it continuous and flourishing. Employees are healthier and full of being productive in so many ways. It calls for mastery of culture, who knows, it could be you. Human skills cannot be compared to a mecha. Man was given dominion to rule the world and manage its resources. "Planted by the waters by the word'. As bearers of living waters that flows.
It's exciting to see this technology coming to fruition and real businesses starting up. Nice to see the opportunities this technology is bringing for people like Katie too. "Farm Operator", that's a subtly space-age job title if you ask me.
ive been doing this hobo style for 15 years now. with the advent of legal weed, the industr has boomed like crazy and become so cheap to do on a small scale at home. very rewarding.
When the science is not interesting or financially sustainable, you try to fluff up the business with personal stories. That is how tech startups work these days.
My question was going to be - how profitable is this? But you answered that question for me
Its ok, they ll just get a bunch of bail outs from our governments!
I mean I get your point the idea that this cant be profitable in future is false, this very well might be the key to human adaption to climate change and maintaining the food supply.
A lot of American agricultural is subsidized and has been for decades.
Well this can obviously be made a lot more simpler and cheaper by removing a lot of unwanted stuff. And over the years, tech will become better and it might be profitable in the future
My school took us to a vertical farm few years ago in London in the East end, a building in the middle of a business area. It was so fascinating and what was most interesting to me, was the fish farming. They used the fish excrement as nutrients for the fruits and veg.
[Edit] it's is sad that patenting laws prevent this from being everywhere for all of humanity to benefit from it. The fact that information is a commodity and those who pay for it can exclusively access it, is specially the heartbreaking part of our profit driven world.
It is because of patenting that it exists. You think you'd spend half your life researching sth to make zero profit and get it china copied? The most innovative and modern countries are countries with a strong patent system.
It doesn't go into the specific details about this farming, but from the looks of it. It appears to be aquaponics which there's criticism about supplying nutrients through a tube. Also there's the matter of using plastics which rubs into the water and goes into the plant. However if build correctly with a full ecosystem using quality fishes and so on can be beneficial on a mass scale for the population. I also believe that this type of thinking will result in more community farming which will encourage people to be more invested in building farming lands for the community.
Its probably hydroponics and not aquaponics. They are only using water and chemicals. They dont seem to be combining it with another system ie animals
I want to start this farming in India, Katie Thank you sooooo much
Why not? It's 2019. I wish they wouldn't package it for sale in plastic, though.
The packaging keeps it fresh, it wouldn't last long without it
I'm a vertical farmer, best job ever!!
Appropriate title for this video should have been 'This high-tech farm grows KATIE in a factory!' 😁
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Those lights are the real magic. We use these in our indoor facility and they allow our crops to grow past the lights without burning the plants.
The part with the parents makes vertical farming seem like a drug. I laughed.
Give 1/10 of such effort to natural farming. The world will start changing in a month.
>Grows plants super environmentally safe
>wraps them in plastic
>ffs
maybe it's that fast degrading type plastic who knows.
A part of the problem of feeding the entire world is not the amount, but the distribution of what we eat. If it rots while in distribution, it's gonna take a lot more food to feed one person, I'll tell you that. In that way, plastic wrapping is environmentally friendly.
just mention the "plastics" video from kurzgesagt instead of repeating the facts from it you cave dwelling mongrels -.-#
what are you talking about kurzgesagt??
Nothing anyones said here I havent been told about scince I was like litturally four years old??
What's the solution dumb ass.
I understand the people wanting to know more about the vertical farm and less about Katie. But honestly, I think is also very interesting somebody can go to college, pay an enormous amount of money for education. Graduate, and have a really hard time looking for a job in their field. So they have to settle for a job where a computer is your boss. Basically you do what the computer tells you because the computer no only knows better, it has experience it already learned due to artificial intelligence. This is the future to most of our descendants. You do not have to like it or dislike it, it does not matter, it is happening. I for one welcome our computer overlords.
looks great but I am curious about their energy usage, can this sort of set-up be easily run on renewables?
very easily, a lot of them across the world run directly on renewables
Bloomberg is something which Journalism should be.
why is 30 mil considered a startup
"Start up" means that its New.
There startups with lot higher budgets and nobody cares.
Startups initial focus is on value generation over profitability.
Small loan of a million dollar
@@pratik1568 start-ups don't rely on loans. They give shares against investments so they can start up, instead of starting from scratch.
I wonder.. Why 1.5k people dislike an informative content like this?
so glad i watched the least inspiring documentary available on employee Katie and her cooking ability rather than the farming techniques.
Check mine out
The documentary is about a vertical farmer not vertical farming
Katie is beautiful. This industry needs to grow
whenever there's a video of modern "vertical farming" that's going to "change the world" it's always kale and salad. Why don't you grow real vegetables like potatoes, carrots, onion, garlic...
Right!! The truth is, it's just not profitable right now. I was just chatting with my friend who builds these things and he was saying how growing something like cucumbers requires too much light energy for the photosynthesis to create glucose in the fruits/veggies that only leafy greens make sense to grow. This is disappointing if this is supposed to be the future of food, we need to keep improving the science and technology behind this. I wrote my Master's thesis on Vertical Farming, and it has a long way to go before we are seeing more than leafy greens and herbs coming our way.
@@LydiaScherr is your work published and available to the public? i would love to read it.
Also interested in your thesis! Is there a way to purchase it?
those grow underground (they're tubers) so its hard to grow that vertically without it rotting and theres probably not enough space
Well done this type of farming is the future.
Wow it's amazing.
I will also start this type of modern farming.
DK KHATRI Wish you luck on your venture!
No. You will not.
Fertile soil is the most important factor in organic growing because of all its known and yet to be discovered benefits on the nutritional quality of crops. Hydroponic growing removes the crucial soil factor and replaces it with soluble nutrient solutions that can in no way duplicate the complex benefits of soil
"It's like crazy to see the stuff I grew on a plate," said no farmer ever.
cause she isnt truly a "farmer"
lmfao
@@puresciencetheoretical4691 hit that nail on the head buddy. This is what happens when academics try to farm... overcomplicated expensive rubbish.
@@JoshStobart amen
so touching for an excellent video
"it's like crazy to see stuff I grew on a plate"
Yeah, that's crazy right! I wonder if anyone has ever had that experience!
I loved this story: automated, computer-controlled farming .. and Katie. I hope Bowery Farming becomes the Apple of kale.
The inspiration surely came from Minecraft automatic farms
cactus
I'm happy Katie that your considerate of the robots.
0:48 Damn...I'd love to do that vertical farming too:))
So these are the pros and cons of in door farming at least in my opinion:
Pros: nutrition flow can be highly regulated,
Water is not lost but instead can be recycled
Cons: High energy consumption
Ergo: the costs can only hardly being minimized. But still I see great chances of the implications in deserts, where water and nutrients are scarce and energy is cheap
Yes, this video is meant to be about Katie. Katie and her job. This series is called "Next Jobs", not "how vertical farming works".
I LOVE THE WAY KATIE MOVES HER EYES AT 2:17🤩, just waiting for that reaction! She put all her trust in her work. Beautiful to see 😍
i will grow high quality weed like this.
who wants to invest in my startup??
Anshul Bhandari send me 69 bags 🤣
Where do invest?
Anshul Bhandari yes
Growing lettuce and green leafy stuff is barely profitable.... Marijuana ain't gona be profitable using vertical farming yet
I'm in. hahaha!
Thank you Bloomberg. Now I know about Katie's life🤣🤣
wow 9 employees at that huge facility
automation is really creating unemployment
I am in Japan. I want to work this vertical farm. What a nice farm. I never seen before.
"It will be pretty lonely for the robots if they dont have anybody to talk to" LOL
KATIE MORICH, please stick with this industry. Hang in there for as long as you can because this is the future of farming, NO DOUBT.
We need this
No, we don't, the natural crops still have more amount of nutrients in a wider range of types, which is much healthier for humans and animals. Also, in this artificial way, natural distribution and mixture of genes among different types of a single species, is disturbed as there is no sexual reproduction of the crops, thus at a later time, these crops will lose the ability to survive in different climates and conditions. So, this method is scientifically unethical and not worthful. Rather try to find a way to grow more crops by discovering natural insecticide, fertilizers and better genetically modified species which die less and give more seeds/ food.
@@AasifHaque seriously? You are selfish.
Aasif Haque that’s stupid especially since this is a huge way towards space farming. Also, since when do you need sexual activity to create a diverse plant. We are long past the Stone Age seeming times where you crossed a yellow pea with another yellow by hand. Bio engineering my friend. Also this saves space. You don’t have to deal with pesticides or parasites. This is a huge success. Fuck the old-age farming style.
@@julkhanzambranozambrano8876 your a dumb woman
The world needs this
Katie is a robot.
npc*
Beautiful produce. Did you see how gorgeous it looked through the plastic packaging in the supermarket? Amazing
This is every vegans wet dream.
i know what every vegans nightmare is :D
Harvard's (decade-long) study on Plant intelligence and their conscious family oriented behavior.
you are just to big, and impatient to notice they live and breath just like humans. :D happy reading!
i'll order you a steak, and wait by the bar.
Honestly it's any person's dream who can't afford imported vegetables or can't grow them / source them locally.
If you look to places in northern Canada or even norther Europe you can't grow vegetables because if the climate, and importing things like salads or even fruit is mind bogglingly expensive.
Vertical farming is a way to grow food when it's pitch black outside (24 hours of darkness is a thing the more northern you go) and -35 degrees and there's 10 foot of snow and the boats, trucks or planes cant deliver food. Most of these operations run on extremely effecient LEDs and pumps making them not just affordable to run, but affordable to the end customer. Also, the vertical aspect means that it takes up less space (which is why you can have a farm in the middle of New York City etc) and be cheaper for people looking to start a vertical farming buisness.
im a fan of vertical farming myself, yet, Nebraska has a 90-year-old farmer who is killing it with greenhouses using thermo-heating.
this previous thought, that we can't grow food anywhere on the planet, is dissipating fast.
This gentleman has a yield of over 8x the normal conventional farming operation, using 1/8th of the land.
all year round, and runs on solar power.
the best part of it is, that he is buying up all the land, no longer rich in nutrients because we have stolen it all from the soil (farming incorrectly).
not to mention his 100% organic method. it's a huge simple solution to add.
his only issue is two pests, and they are removed by an organic oil mixture.
its quite impressive, i must say!
yet, something tells me that our ancestors who used to do something similar to this were also reaping harvests off of these ancient methods, revised.
they used to have a hole mounded with veggie's etc, and an opening to the sun on a 66 degree angle, (i think) depending on your location from the equator.
NoLeads Ent. More plants are killed by meat eaters because animals eat plants.
@@blue_cameron so do insects. Far more insects eat plants than humans. That's why they communicate with the enemy of the attacker v.i.a pheromones. They share soil only with relatives. You see plants are conscious beings. But reality is harsh to some by showing, "life needs life, to live"..nL how far does your love for life go? To starvation? Or are some to small to care about? Plant life matters hehe
Vertical farms like Bowery will, besides the food problem, solve the issue of space that growing crops in regular fields takes and, even further, the amount of water they waste in the tradicional methods, since the water in cities does not cost the same as water in (and for) rural productive properties. Beyond that, there's the logistic problem, because rural areas frequently are far from urban centers. With vertical farms, every single neighbourhood could have it's own farm for it's people, who can go there by walking and buy their vegetables.
We could also talk about the development of local economy and reduce of traffic (of stress, pollution and waste of time, by consequence), but that's another toppic for another discussion.
You're confusing genuine calorie food production with foods grown purely for variety/taste but with no real contribution to make to calorie intake
Vertical farming is a fascination topic!
But how Katie found here job? Couldn't care less...
I loved it, I'm impressed this is in Jersey, and also it's a neat reporting, by not only presenting the technology but also the social impact it gives to its comunity. Awesome!
"it might look like we are in a spaceship"... obviously reporter hasn't been in a space ship :eyeroll:
Internet Astronaut with 12"
Yea it looked like a warehouse to me. Also like a lab or even a backroom area where cables for computer servers go.
Its agriculture with brains. Superbb
For every job created by technology, 100 are lost. I am not against technology, I am against this idea that every human must work all day, every day, as if tech hasn't replaced the need for manual labor.
Love this new concept.
Hope to see more of this.
Katie's story is inspiring
6:47!
Is this a video about Vertical Farming or is it just about Katie's life?
A 2020 report found that nearly 690 million people-or 8.9 percent of the global population-are hungry, up by nearly 60 million in five years. The food security challenge will only become more difficult, as the world will need to produce about 70 percent more food by 2050 to feed an estimated 9 billion people. 3:33
The challenge is intensified by agriculture’s extreme vulnerability to climate change. The problem also works in reverse. Agriculture is a major part of the climate problem. [World Bank]
This video is about both; vertical farming and Katie's life as a vertical farmer.
oh btw for those who are confused the video title is: "The High-Tech Vertical Farmer" not: "The High-Tech Vertical Farm"
"It would be pretty lonely for the robots if they have no one to talk to." She hit Banks's Culture on the head.
Beautiful, pure, clean. I wish this sort of stuff replaced all farming by now.
I thought this was about the farm not about an employee
Like the vid btw.
This video takes on an important aspect. To get the produce to be cheap, they need less farmers. This means:
1) They might not have profits or very little.
2) They’re burning cash, literally.
3) Once the singularity happens if there’s very little people working who’s going to buy the produce?
she became the 9th employee
this means the 8, 5-star reviews were from the other 8 employees
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I imagine one of the biggest advantages to this farming technology is that due to being a completely controlled environment, they can use much less pesticide and not have to worry about pest control as much.
I would love to ask Katie how she feels about this morally.
After all, the entire genome of the Amazon rainforest could quite easily be permanently stored in a hard drive !
Appropriate implementation of the technological devices.💯💯
"New Jersey: The last place you would expect sins of life"...sounds about right.
Congratulations!🎉🎈🎊🍾
I love this business and would love to run a farm like this but I really don't see this technology creating more jobs then traditional farming and as a matter of fact it will destroy far more then it creates.
It feeds more than it starves
Hopefully, these factories can lower the price of food and allow people to spend more on other industries which create more jobs there..
But it would cause a lot of chaos while traditional farmers have to find new jobs/education and whole communities built around agriculture have to adjust.
What is the mechanism by which a farm like this would destroy jobs? Are you thinking that the production will so much more efficient that there will be less need for workers compared to the amount of harvested vegetables. If so, it would likely only drive prices down, promote the development of more tiered farms and lead the economy to adapt to changing agricultural-sector conditions. Agricultural innovations have always led to a decrease in the number of required jobs to produce crops, but this has never proved detrimental to changing economies. In the mid-1800s, around 50% of americans were employed in agriculture. Today only around 2% are directly employed in agriculture yet the percentage of income that goes into buying food for the average american has decreased steadily since the post-antebellum era, and has only recently begun to flatten out.
How many rural farmers are there in the world?. Not just North America but worldwide? How many of them can buy or rent warehouse space and afford to build the infrastructure in it? Not to mention these farms produce somewhere in the neighborhood of 10x the yield of traditional farming with 1/10th the risk. It will be impossible to compete for 90% of the worlds farmers.
@@stevepatterson1124 My professor always said. When you build technology you must think about social impacts to farmers. I'm from Agricultural University in Indonesia. And here we still depend on traditional agriculture. And yes. This kind of farming method will kill many farmers here. It'll starve more than it'll feed.
Your handling of the fruit is gentle
It's expensive farming.
Much less expensive in regions where water is costly, land is contaminated, or pests are frequent.
Video is about an employee, in a series about jobs.
Comments are 90% people talking about the industry, not the job.
If you want more information about vertical farming, those videos are out there. This video is a video about employees in a vertical farm.
Tell me why Katie reminds me of
Cindy Lou who 💀😂
Interesting video. I like her backstory. I think the reason people complain in comments are they do not like to get reminded of their own self-doubts. I like to be reminded, and see it was not only me. Also let me get reminded that most young people today are just like that. I was the same. Took me many years to find my self and my spot in the world. Because parenting and the system failed.
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Root and grain crops? Nothing on that yet. Leafy green crops that are grown like this are generally micro nutrient deficient. It's a major problem.
I had dream to develop this kind of farm in China. ............................... but no enough money right now.
I can't believe how many people left negative comments. This is the future of farming.